Gulliver goes on four separate voyages in Gulliver's Travels.
Each journey is preceded by a storm. All four voyages bring new
perspectives to Gulliver's life and new opportunities for satirizing the
ways of England.
The first voyage is to Lilliput, where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliputians
are small. At first the Lilliputians seem amiable, but the reader soon
sees them for the ridiculous and petty creatures they are. Gulliver is
convicted of treason for "making water" in the capital (even though he
was putting out a fire and saving countless lives)--among other
"crimes." The second voyage is to Brobdingnag, a land of Giants where Gulliver
seems as small as the Lilliputians were to him. Gulliver is afraid, but
his keepers are surprisingly gentle. He is humiliated by the King when
he is made to see the difference between how England is and how it ought to be. Gulliver
realizes how revolting he must have seemed to the Lilliputians.
